By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON, DC – The New York Times has published the personal tax returns of President Donald Trump, precipitating a media frenzy on…
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Dan Geddes is the author of The Satirist: Volume 1 and the editor of the online journal The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal, an astonishing collection of satires, reviews, reviews of imaginary works, fiction, essays, poems, and satirical news.
Geddes' satire and serious criticism in The Satirist online has been widely cited in books, English courses, academic papers and journals, newspapers, and websites. Geddes has written for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Dry Bones Review, and The Modern Word. His satirical work has also appeared in GlossyNews.com.
Geddes has also written several unpublished works, including a literary comic novel, a feature-length screenplay, and a collection of European travel stories.
He lives in Amsterdam.
By Dan Geddes On Christmas Eve Santa was making his rounds, Traveling the globe by leaps and by bounds, Arriving in Washington until…
Satire in the Global Village By Dan Geddes[1] From the talk, “Satire in the Global Village” given at the Institute of General Semantics’ symposium on…
Harold Bloom was America’s best known literary critic for at least 30 years. Reading Bloom’s books were often a guilty pleasure for me. He wrote…
Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman (Translated by Elizabeth Manton) Review by Dan Geddes Rutger Bregman (Utopia for Realists) makes compelling arguments for the redistribution…
(With apologies to Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”) I. April is the cruelest month, when youthful hearts with passion…
Introduction The competition to become a top corporate manager has never been fiercer. While old school corporate management values such as efficiency and vision still…
Intelligence Agencies “Live in Fear” WASHINGTON – Many Trump supporters are convinced that Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” is right on track. “Trump is…
By Dan Geddes
AMSTERDAM – Jan Smit, 44, Member of the European Parliament (MEP), proposed yesterday that Dutch should become the new official language of the EU after Brexit finally takes place next year.
“It can’t be German,” said Smit, “for semi-obvious historical reasons. The French can pretend that others are willing to learn French, but most people are not. The French are just too annoying when they correct you, even when they do it in English. And everybody hates the French. You know it; I know it.”
LAS VEGAS – Ray Milland, 45, a self-proclaimed “heavy drinker” is very sure that he’s not an alcoholic. Mr. Milland, an executive for the United…
By Dan Geddes
WASHINGTON – In a move described as “accepting reality” the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has declared plastic to be “a major food group.”
US FDA spokesperson Carl Manson stated: “We admit that trace amounts of plastic leak into many food products. Significant amounts of plastic appear in other food products, such as fish. However, top scientists all agree that there is nothing wrong with ingesting plastics, as has been proven by generations of long-term studies on the population since the 1960s.”
WASHINGTON – While most Americans support the U.S. drive for world domination, some have confessed to harboring doubts about the master plan. A recent CNN…
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